Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dawei Wu; Chunyan Wu; Aditya Dikshit; Weizhao Zhao

patients can be described to students inreality. Bringing students to these laboratories will give them firsthand knowledge and providethem the opportunity to practice the knowledge they have just learned if they are involved inresearch projects in laboratories. In recent years, Internet and intranet developments have greatlyexpanded the possibilities for medical imaging instruction 1-3, 6-7. Advanced web sites of medicalimaging have been well developed mainly for graduate study or for research purposes. Imageprocessing techniques for medical imaging are usually of interest primarily to the softwareengineering industry. In fact, however, these techniques are an inherent part of imaging systemsand are closely related to imaging principles

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elsa Q. Villa, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding CPEng, University of Texas, El Paso

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

courses, identifiesrelevant field-based work for engineering majors, and identifies successful activities of theexisting UTEP Noyce scholarship program to prepare Noyce Scholars for the demands of K-12 Page 24.242.2classrooms.Project GoalsThe overarching goal of the project is to build capacity within the UTEP College of Engineering,in partnership with the UTEP College of Education, to prepare for recruiting and certifyingengineering students, which includes computer science majors, to become teacher-engineers. Tomeet this broad goal are the following two goals with respective descriptions: Goal 1: Build the infrastructure for producing

Conference Session

Gender Perceptions and Girls in K-12 Engineering and Computer Science

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary; Laleh Behjat P.Eng., University of Calgary

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, engineering design techniques can change student perceptionsof gender within STEM fields. We designed a series of creative projects that combine mandated science, mathematics,technology, English, social studies, physical education and fine arts courses with basic electricalengineering concepts. These projects were led across five schools by one of the femaleresearchers6. Over 350 local grade 5 students participated in the projects. Impressions held bystudents towards STEM were measured through quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews,both before and after the completion of the projects. These results are summarized in Table I.Table 1: Comparison of student percentages who responded “agree” or “strongly agree”Survey Question

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

processes ofmedical imaging modalities, and to practice computing skills on bio-medical signal processing.The simulation software suite, SimuRad5, implements a series of numerical algorithms tosimulate the physical and biological processes in several common medical imaging modalities.The software contains expandable modules, each to support a serious lab exercises related to aparticular modality. Currently implemented modules include math fundamentals, computedtomography (CT), x-ray physics, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), image enhancement andanalysis. This assessment study involves six lab exercises, over which both student survey dataand direct assessment data were collected for analysis. Lab 1, Projection and Projection Slice Theorem

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs and Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jude L. DePalma, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ananda Mani Paudel, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Hüseyin Sarper, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Ding Yuan, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

to motivate students throughout the engineering science classes. Third year courses. Use exercises and projects in which students apply engineering knowledge to topics in sustainability. Fourth year courses. Ensure students’ knowledge of sustainability in the senior seminar and require that students consider sustainability in senior design projects.In each year we continue the previous strategies and add more, so that by the senior year, thestudents find sustainability a natural part of engineering and a natural view of the world. Explicitinstruction on sustainability is done as “bookends” with an introduction to the topic in the first

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Staszowski

effects of thepeer interactions that occurred within an early-childhood robotic learning environment.Specifically, which of the underling concepts of the curriculum were most often used as thefoundation of peer-interactions and how did those interactions appear to effect the children’sunderstanding of engineering methods and processes.Method The study was conducted as part of a larger research study on the interactions betweenculture, technology, and family-member/child interactions. This larger study, ProjectInteractions, was a conceptual modification of a research project conducted by Bers and Urrea(2002) entitled Con-science.3 Con-science studied the effect of programmable Lego technology

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simoneau; Mary deManbey; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

. Although the ATE programemphasized community college faculty development, the Foundation felt it was important toinclude high school teachers as well. Bringing the two faculty groups together could potentiallycreate greater partnerships which could lead to articulation agreements, ultimately creatingpathways for students who might not otherwise transition into a college program.While the emphasis on the subjects taught was math, science and technology, the industry focuswas on engineering (including biomedical engineering), manufacturing and informationtechnology. These industry areas were chosen because of a perceived critical technology skillsshortage in these areas, future positive job projections and their obvious dependence on strongmath and

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein

Role of Axiomatic Design in Teaching Capstone Courses Edwin Odom, Steven Beyerlein, Christopher A. Brown, Daniel Drew, Lloyd Gallup, Sam Zimmerman, and Jeremy Olberding University of Idaho/Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractHelping undergraduate engineering students learn effective design practices that are applicable tothe modern workplace is one of the most complex challenges of engineering education. Onestrategy to help students master open-ended design projects is to use a systematic process.However, students often want to jump past the front end of the design process and thiscompromises the quality of the final product. This paper examines the suitability of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Aronson; Reid Bailey

year, nine departments offered senior design classes in theCollege of Engineering. All but one of the departments offered two semesters of senior design.The structure and content of each course reflected the nature of each discipline and thedepartment in which it was offered. For instance, the chemical engineering course involved thedesign of a plant (without implementing the design) while mechanical engineering projectsinvolved the design of devices and required construction and testing. Most of the nine differentcourses, however, involved a team of students identifying needs, developing designs, buildingdesigns, and testing the designs over two semesters. Projects came from a variety of sources,with primary sources being industry, faculty

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

• Automated assembly required for some packages • Thermal problems associated with differences in coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) between certain packages and the PCB substrate – typically FR-4. Figure 1. Typical SMT component packages: left, small outline (SO) transistors, right 132-pin quad flat pack (QFP).The author has been involved with SMT since the early 1990s. Believing that SMT would havea major impact on both the topics that should be taught in BS EE and EET programs, as well ason all lab-oriented courses, he proposed and was granted a sabbatical for the 1992-93 schoolyear. During that time he was employed as a senior project engineer at Delco Electronics Corp.(now Delphi Delco

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; David Rocheleau; Jed Lyons

SESSION #1526 Mechatronics/Microcontroller Education for Mechanical Engineering Students at the University of South Carolina Victor Giurgiutiu, Jed Lyons, David Rocheleau Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208, victorg@sc.eduABSTRACTThe Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of South Carolina has embarkedupon a project to enhance the Mechatronics/microcontroller education of non-EE engineeringstudents. NSF funds the project with cost-share by the Department of Mechanical Engineeringand the College of

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

microcontrollers, includinga project to add a meaningful hardware experience and providing a means for students toinexpensively program their MCU’s at home. We selected the PIC12F675 microcontroller and the PICkitTM 1 FLASH Start Kitdevelopment board from Microchip Technology, Inc. for our microcontroller studies. Teamsof students construct, code, debug and test complete design solutions at home and verify theirimplementation by real-time execution in class. The paintball chronograph project requireshardware and coding for both the PC and PIC12F675, focusing most of the pertinent coursematerial into a single effort. Course assessments show that the chronograph project was very successful and highlymotivational. Hardware construction was relatively

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

exam in the first semester. Two primaryfactors were reported for withdrawals within the first seven weeks of the course. First, studentsindicated significant apprehension regarding the level of programming required (programminghad been added to the first project in 2001). Second, a number of the students who withdrewwere convinced (without firm evidence) that the majority of other students in the course weremore proficient at programming.These observations led to modifications to the first project with the dual goals of improving theeducational experience for the students and retaining a greater percentage of students through thefirst semester. First, the emphasis was changed from programming and physics to engineering asan application of math

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

betweenepoxy-glass composites and southern yellow pine. During the six-week program, the teachers learned to conduct literature research in thelibrary, to design experiments, to fabricate composite material overlays on wood beams, to testthe beams to determine strength and stiffness improvements and to test the bond strength aftervarious environmental exposures. Through these experiences, the teachers gained increasedcontent knowledge, design of experiments skills, and useful instructional materials.IntroductionThis project was made possible by a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Supplement1 tothe University of South Carolina’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) grantfrom the National Science Foundation. The objective of

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

, business and even arts and science. College recruiters areconstantly asking our students “Have you worked in teams?” “Has it been a successfulexperience?” “What team building and leadership skills have you developed?”Lehigh students enrolled in our Integrated Product Development (IPD) courses are fortunate tohave this experience while undergraduates. Recruiters have stated that each year the students inLehigh’s IPD program are “the best prepared in this class of recruits.” In addition our studentreport to us that the job interview itself often focused on the results on their year-long IPDproject. This is not by happenstance, but by design and planning.The IPD projects has been designed to give students industrial experience in new

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kris Dick; Don Petkau; Danny Mann; Myron (Ron) Britton

drawings) and practical fabrication skills are emphasized throughoutall three courses. A high level of coordination between the three courses has been achieved,culminating in a joint presentation of the design projects at a formal technical meeting of theCanadian Society of Agricultural Engineering. This paper will discuss the details of this “DesignTrilogy” including some of the modifications that have taken place over the past four years.I. IntroductionSociety expects that engineers should be able to design practical solutions to problems.Employers hire engineers with the expectation that they can design workable, affordablesolutions to problems. It is the job of the university, therefore, to make sure that graduatingengineers are capable of

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Weinstein

the central office and the new office located across the street which will allow claimsadjusters to update and submit claims information—including digital photographs—into acentral repository. The result is a project in which each student must learn a foreigntechnology, learn to work as a team, learn how to deal with the other disciplines, developa working business plan and deliver a working prototype to solve the problem. The resultsare impressive. The team figured out how to speak one another’s languages and producedan actual prototype demonstrating the synergistic combination of backgrounds andeducational experiences that were taxed into creating a remarkable solution in a shortperiod of time.By completing the project, engineering students

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Moriarty

following sections, we detail the coursedelivery method as well as a breakdown, by discipline, of team effort. We end with adiscussion of results and observations on improving the experience. II. COURSE STRUCTURE AND LOGISTICSThe design experience is offered as a required portion of a senior level Lab course. Allstudents participating in the solar car project and the three faculty advisors from eachdiscipline meet weekly as a group for one hour. The faculty select the teams prior to thefirst of these group meetings, in which the project is defined, constraints are given and theoverall course procedures are outlined. Teams are required to keep a logbook whichdetails the though processes, methodologies and design considerations

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhili (Jerry) Gao, North Dakota State University; Russell Walters, Iowa State University

extraction, storage, and calculations. ShockWave and 3D studio provide the tools to develop 2D and3D animation of transition from design to construction process. Cyclone allows students to perform laserscanning operations for existing projects or current construction sites and gather as-built graphical data tohelp the design process and construction management. OO-CAD together with other tools is used todevelop graphic specifications and guidelines for the construction process. After students obtain thesecomputer-graphic based skills, they will be able to graphically simulate and the operate constructionprocess in a simple, accurate, safe, and effective way. Also, more advanced construction simulation andintegration concepts could be created from

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John Duffy; Edmund Tsang; Susan M. Lord

medical clinics in Peru. The challenge in implementation ismaintaining subject matter content in courses while meeting real community needs. A surveywas distributed to engineering colleges throughout the US to discover how widespread service-learning and community-based projects are in engineering.IntroductionIn our collective experience, the mention of the term “service-learning” to engineering educatorsgenerally evokes one of three typical responses. The most common response is: "What isservice-learning anyway?" The next most typical is exemplified by the remark: "We do thatalready." The third is typified by: "We have no room in our curriculum to add anything moregiven all that ABET requires." The aim of this paper is to address these

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John DiMilia; Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

Session 2121 A Study on Materials Procurement and Management for Small Companies Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, John DiMilia SUNY Farmingdale, NY 11735IntroductionMaterials procurement and management is an integral part of the building process. Materialsaffect every aspect of a construction project. 1 However, smaller companies have little to nomaterial procurement and management systems. As a result these companies incur additional butavoidable costs. Some of these costs are due to; a)large delivery times for materials, b) excessordering of material

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Linda Head

Solution: A Women’s Machining CourseIt was to help combat this artificial gender divide that we embarked upon the Women’sMachining Course at Rowan University. Two of our former female senior ME studentsapproached one of us (Constans) and stated that, despite four intense years of mechanicalengineering instruction, they still felt uncomfortable in the machine shop. During courseprojects involving prototyping they noticed that most of the machining was performed by theirmale counterparts. This is consistent with our own observations; in a typical team projectsituation a male student will almost invariably volunteer to do the fabrication, leaving the femalestudents to do the computational or written portions of the project. It was disheartening to

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Pike

trend exists elsewhere as suggested by Boronkay andDave1.In an attempt to provide students with a useful FEA exposure, initial educational experience withFEA should occur as early as possible in a technical program to allow for other FEA assignmentsthroughout the degree program. Statics is the first technical course for both mechanicalengineering and mechanical engineering technology students and is therefore the logical place tointroduce FEA. In previous papers the author has discussed the truss design, build, and testproject that he incorporates into his Statics class2. This paper will detail how FEA was added tothe design project and the results of two classes’ experiences

Conference Session

Qualitative Research Programs & International Research Experience from Around the World

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xia Wang, Oakland University; Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Qian Zou, Oakland University; Michael A. Latcha, Oakland University; Li Jia, Beijing Jiaotong University; Zhuqian Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University

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International

Beijing JiaotongUniversity (BJTU) in Beijing, China. In the past summer, a total of 6 students have taken part inthe IRES program. These students stayed in Beijing Jiaotong University for 8 weeks and workedon three different projects related to fuel cells. This paper will focus on the organization of thisprogram including pre-departure preparation, on-site orientation, on-site activities and post-program assessment. Also, the lessons learned from running this type of program will besummarized. Some suggestions to keep the sustainability of the program will be also provided.IntroductionThe globalization of science, engineering and manufacturing is very important in re-shaping thecurrent US economy. Much has been made in the literature about the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute; Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis ; Sudhir Shrestha, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kody Varahramyan, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Nanotechnology ProgramsAbstractA new Bachelor of Science Nanotechnology track within the School of Engineering andTechnology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is being developedunder NSF NUE program*. This paper covers the educational elements from the first phase ofthe project. A sequence of two courses was offered in the fall and spring semesters within boththe School of Engineering & Technology and the School of Sciences. Students from electricalengineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, physics,and chemistry disciplines, were enrolled in these courses. A total of five faculty members fromboth engineering and sciences collaborated in developing and teaching these two

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University; Johnny Thieken, Arizona State University; Lisa Stapley Randall, Arizona State University; Alison W. Smith, SRP

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NSF Grantees

the Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers project, Learning through Engineering Design and Practice (2007-2011), a National Science Foundation Award# 0737616 from the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. This project is aimed at designing, implementing, and systematically studying the impact of a middle-school engineering education program.Johnny Thieken, Arizona State University John Thieken, MEd., is currently a high school mathematics teacher at the Paradise Valley School District and a doctoral student in the PhD in mathematics education at Arizona State University. He has as Bache- lor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Northern Arizona University and

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Matters in Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University; Douglas William Twigge; John Block, Texas A&M University; Mickie Byrd

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Engineering Technology

AC 2012-3434: E-CLOCK: A WIKI-BASED OUTREACH AND RECRUIT-MENT TOOLDr. Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University Joseph A. Morgan is a Full Professor in the Electronics Engineering Technology program at Texas A&M University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. His major areas of interest include wireless networking and embedded microcontroller-based data acquisition, instrumentation and control systems. Morgan has also served as Director of engineering and as a Senior Consultant to the private sector where he has been involved in several design, development and system integration projects sponsored by the FAA, USAF, and major airport authorities. As a Texas A&M faculty member, he

Conference Session

FPD III: Innovation in Design in the First Year

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan K. Donohue, University of Virginia

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First-Year Programs

structure and content. A hybrid instructional design for a cornerstone course is presentedand its efficacy in promoting student understanding of the engineering design processinvestigated. The instructional design is called a “hybrid” because it uses both short-term andlong-term projects to provide coverage that explores topics in both depth and breadth instead ofjust short-term or just long-term projects. A review of relevant artifacts from the Fall, 2011semester indicates that the research goal was achieved.IntroductionIn first-year engineering undergraduate programs with a design component, students are typicallyintroduced to the concept and practice of engineering design primarily through lecture,discussion, and project-based/design-build-test

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

Engineers”. In thiscourse WebCT created a convenient and effective environment for instructor-student interaction.Using WebCT, the instructor was able to provide the students with a variety of course relatedmaterial to aid them in better understanding the topics covered. The course documents werecreated using a wide range of software tools and made available for the students through WebCTin the PDF format. Electronic submissions of student assignments provided an opportunity forthe instructor to take a closer look at the details of the student projects and grade them withgreater accuracy. The assignment grades were reported back to the students confidentially via theweb to help them keep track of their records and progress. An electronic bulletin

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Teri Rhoads; Barry Mauldin

statistics course atthe University of Oklahoma were evaluated. Cognitive performance was measured via gradesearned on homework, tests, and projects. Affective performance was measured via a survey oftheir attitudes toward this statistics course and the topic of statistics in general. The studycompares results from a semester that did not use computer modules and a semester that did usecomputer modules. There was found to be no statistical difference in cognitive performancebetween the two semesters. Similarly, no statistical difference in affective performance wasdiscovered.I. IntroductionThe advancement of educational technology has stimulated new ways to present course content.Multimedia usage varies over a broad spectrum. It can include e-mail